Several reports are coming out of China that there is pressure on state-controlled organisations - notably the country's main sovereign wealth
fund, China Investment Corporation (CIC) to rapidly build investment in non-Chinese enterprises. While the CIC itself, with apparent access to some
$300 billion in funds - and the possibility of more from the government - may be concentrating on hedge funds and other investment entities, there is
another sector for Chinese state-owned companies looking at major investment in commodities. Indeed with the funds available as China seems to be
dumping its US dollars in favour of more concrete assets, virtually no minerals sector is safe from Chinese participation.

While CIC was set up only two years ago, funded with $200 billion in initial capital, a report to the U.S. Congress noted that according to top
Chinese officials, it was created to improve the rate of return on China's $1.5 trillion in foreign exchange reserves and to soak up some of the
nation's excess financial liquidity. Depending on its performance with the initial allotment of $200 billion, the CIC might be allocated more of
China's growing stock of foreign exchange reserves - and this has already proved to be the case.

Probably the most interesting of the recent reports of what is happening with Chinese sovereign wealth fund investment outside China has come from
Paul Mylchreest's Thunder Road Report where an ex-U.S. intelligence service member is quoted. He reports that he has a friend who is in the Chinese
Sovereign Wealth fund sector who says - hearsay I know and it wouldn't stand up in court - indicated that the wealth fund analysts were working all
hours of the day and night trying to put investment deals together - particularly in the oil and precious metals sectors. The conclusion is that
China recognises that the U.S. dollar is going to tank and it wants to convert as much of its trillions of dollars of holdings into strategic assets
as possible before the collapse really takes hold.

CIC has also worked to mitigate the risk of dealing in overseas markets through the action of its newly created International Advisory Council.
The IAC contains such luminaries as Taizo Nishimuro, Chairman of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and John Thornton, former President of Goldman Sachs,
whose job is to help advise the fund on threats and opportunities coming out of overseas markets.

Take $1,500bn in Chinese dollar reserves, add generous dollops of concern about currency debasement, mix in a shopping spree by the Chinese state.
Then scream.

At least, you should be screaming if your life savings are in dollars.

Recent Chinese buying of hard assets is by no means simple investment or long-term preparation for a rapidly growing population and economy, according
to boutique brokerage Aviate Global.

No, the Chinese are buying, they say, because they are quietly tip toeing away from the dollar and hoping that no one else will notice:

The investment community is waking up to the reality that China is buying hard assets (gold, precious metals, oil, copper/ally etc) for more than
simply industrial purposes. They have $1.5tn in $ reserves. They understand the $’s day as a reserve currency is over and hold the biggest key to
future debasement: full Yuan convertibility.
“Full yuan convertibility” refers to what could be the end stage of a process of internationalising the renminbi by eventually allowing it to
float freely against other currencies.

Check out the options chain.. my cpu is running so damn slow I can only have 1 browser tab open lol

Yes, WFC is too big fail. The ONLY reason the government would even let this news out is if they WANTED the markets to crash again...key word...want.
If they don't, then they will just keep capitalizing WFC through secret channels and nobody will hear about this.

Originally posted by GreenBicMan
thats where you will see the $ flow first

I have to be at work tomorrow by 8AM I can't believe I am still up. I haven't been sleeping well since I demanded my doctor prescribe amphetamine
(adderall) to lift my mood up, but the speed is giving me too much of a boost. I think I will also have to fill my ambien prescription. I will
become like marilyn monroe, an uppers and downers addict

I looked at the option chains. Nothing too strange...though in January 2010, someone purchased like 2000 puts for 10 dollars and 2000 puts for
12.5.

haha.. so weak compared to my vyvanse.. u would be running up walls lol - i would just keep an eye on the WFC options change if you believe in this
theory

I don't really trust options in deciphering where securities are going (if I did I would have bought 17 dollar october calls for ung 2 months ago
when someone bought 100,000 of them). Now it is like 9 dollars...that would have been a bad move...

About vyvanse...all that is, is an attempt by that pharmaceutical company to make more money since adderall already has generic competition. That is
the main reason for them creating it, and it is also because adderall might have more side effects due to it being a combination of different
amphetamine molecules...while vyvanse is just one.

Originally posted by GreenBicMan
lisdex is vyvanse, and yes shire owns me lol

Well anyway, I did this pee test to test neuro chemicals because I have said for my whole life that I HAVE A DOPAMINE DEFICIENCY...like I just knew
it. I never loved anything, I just walked around like a depressed robot and sometimes I would be sitting down doing homework or work for work and
have to run to the bathroom and cry for no reason and not to mention the extreme suicidal thoughts. I was like I got to get this checked.

Sure enough, I came out with a severe dopamine deficiency. My grandmother was manic depressive and killed herself years ago, she probably had it
too.

Well you know what I REALLY like.. that would be your savior if you didnt abuse it, really would.. just down follow my path

I have a VERY low abuse potential. I have tried so many things that are supposedly 'very' addicting, like opiates, and I have never been addicted.
I have not tried what you REALLY like though since I don't think I want to try something that some Dutch person hid up one of their
orifices......................................

i eat things that pop outta cow manure, you must think i be ka ka ka krraaazy

Just take a lot of vyvanse and then you won't have to worry about eating...

Anyway, the problem with what YOU like is that eventually it wears off for a lot of people. Though, yeah, it should definitely still be used for some
people with severe depression. Hell, electro shock therapy is still used! My other grandma (the one who didn't kill herself) went through that for
her depression and was really screwed up for a while...

Are you less depressed now>? Like about working at with your dad and living at home? I mean...do you still want to live under a bridge and
prostitute yourself to strange men? (I added the latter in there)

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